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Topic: Women's Rights

Human rights due diligence in India’s leather industry: A long way to go

Human rights due diligence in India’s leather industry: A long way to go

Posted by | Dec 3, 2020

A study by Cividep India, Homeworkers Worldwide, and Ethical Trading Initiative identified adverse labour rights risks and impacts in factories and informal supply chains of leather goods production clusters in India. Companies need to conduct more comprehensive due diligence, involving civil society organizations, in industries such as the export-oriented leather sector in India, with complex and largely unmapped supply chains.

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Podcast on migrant workers in Bangalore’s garment industry

Podcast on migrant workers in Bangalore’s garment industry

Posted by | Feb 5, 2019

Deepika Rao of Cividep India talks to the Institute for Human Rights and Business in this podcast on the living and working conditions of migrant workers in Bangalore’s garment industry, the numerous ways in which they are denied their rights and entitlements due to their vulnerabilities as outsiders in an alien city.

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#WhoCares? campaign for business responsibilities towards childcare and maternity rights

#WhoCares? campaign for business responsibilities towards childcare and maternity rights

Posted by | Jun 1, 2018

The #WhoCares? campaign, run by FEMNET, is aimed at European consumers and asks Who Cares for the children of seamstresses in India, for maternity rights and childcare, and companies’ due diligence towards their social responsibilities. Cividep, in partnership with FEMNET, has had a long-term engagement with research and documentation of the conditions of childcare and maternity rights in garment factories in Bangalore as well as capacity building with regards to their improvement.

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Women and minimum wages

Women and minimum wages

Posted by | Apr 20, 2017

Cividep India’s inputs find mention in this comprehensive article series on discriminatory and inhuman working conditions faced by Bangalore’s garment workers.

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